''Britannia'' is an annual peer-reviewed

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published by

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on behalf of the

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interest ...

. It was established in 1970 and the first

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was Sheppard Frere. The journal covers research on the province of

Roman Britain Roman Britain was the period in classical antiquity when large parts of the island of Great Britain were under occupation by the Roman Empire. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. During that time, the territory conquered wa ...

, Iron Age and post-Roman Britain, and western provincial

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

, as well as excavation reports. It was established because of the large increase in archaeological excavations, increased publication costs, and in order to establish coherence to the field of Roman Britain. The journal includes the section ''Roman Britain in...'' which summarises sites explored and inscriptions, and which continue the series ''

Roman Inscriptions of Britain ''Roman Inscriptions of Britain'' is a 3-volume corpus of inscriptions found in Britain from the Roman period. It is an important reference work for all scholars of Roman Britain. This monumental work was initiated by Francis J. Haverfield, whose ...

''. In 2017 the conference "Retrospect and Prospect: 50 years of Britannia and the state of Romano-British archaeology" was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the journal. The current editor is Hella Eckardt.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: * Sheppard Frere (1970-) *Simon Esmonde Cleary (2004-2009) *Barry C. Burnham (-2018) * Hella Eckardt (2019-present)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, L'Année philologique,

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, and

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References

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* {{Authority control Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United Kingdom Cambridge University Press academic journals British history journals Annual journals English-language journals Publications established in 1970